November 28, 2006

• Several years ago, we placed a mouse trap behind the TV in our family room. It's one of those mouse traps that keeps it alive in a box if it ever enters it. After all these years, it finally caught one. At first I didn't even know what happened, but I kept hearing some scratching noise behind the TV one afternoon. I assumed it was a mouse, but I didn't see one roaming around, until I realized that a mouse trap was pretty well hidden under all those electronic cables and cords. Sure enough the mouse was still alive and couldn't escape the trap. I watched the cute little mouse as it's frantically trying to find a way out of the trap. Ofcourse I didn't want to kill it, so I'm just going to leave it outside of the house.

  As soon as I stepped out into the backyard to dump the mouse there, to my surprise it was actually able to escape one of the openings of the mouse trap (that *should* have stayed closed at that point). Luckily I was already outside of the house, as I watch the mouse run away from me. It eventually tried to run back into the house via the garage, but I scared it back away. I was hoping that it would run out the back gate of our back yard into the "wild," but instead it opted to run to this small gap in our side wall and into the neighbor's back yard. Well now, I guess that's the end of that situation.... for now.

  p.s. I didn't know mouse can climb walls. It didn't go very high (2 feet maybe), but still...

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